--- title: A squash ball is about 40 mm across, small enough to fit into the ey… — Posture and eyes for sporty kids · tree and pragmatics description: A squash ball is about 40 mm across, small enough to fit into the eye socket, so protective eyewear is recommended for squash. Who acts: squash ball. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (squash ball), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:058-posture-and-eyes-for-sporty-kids.lesson:8 # text = A squash ball is about 40 mm across, small enough to fit into the eye socket, so protective eyewear is recommended for squash. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 058-posture-and-eyes-for-sporty-kids.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 squash squash NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 about about ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 40 40 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 mm mm NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 across across ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 11 enough enough ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 fit fit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 14 into into ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 socket socket NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 20 protective protective ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 eyewear eyewear NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 recommended recommend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 squash squash NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a squash ball | 40 mm | | | | across *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **fit** | to-infinitive | a squash ball *not said here* | | | the eye socket | | | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into socket=Destination | | 3 | **recommend** | present · passive | | protective eyewear | | | | for squash | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme for squash=Attribute | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:medicine:058-posture-and-eyes-for-sporty-kids.lesson:8`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Posture and eyes for sporty kids, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/58-posture-and-eyes-for-sporty-kids/7/) - next →: [Posture and eyes for sporty kids, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/58-posture-and-eyes-for-sporty-kids/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/58-posture-and-eyes-for-sporty-kids/)